test-drb February 2002

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by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> > For floppies, I just break 'em open any way I can, > > and then use bare, clean hands with dish detergent. > > Let dry on a lint-free rag and you're through. > > Jerome Fine replies: > > I am trying to recover some files from an DEC RX02 (8" SSDD) > floppy. After you clean the media, how do you put it back into > the drive? Using a brand-new donor diskette, which gets the same Xacto- knife treatment, I put the cleaned media in the new shell, and with one or two carefully-placed drops of cyanoacrylate, you have a reconstructed floppy. > I have one floppy that has over 100 error blocks (can't be read) > out of 988. Others have just a few. Is it possible to only spot clean > the ones with a few errors without removing the jacket? Dunno- let us know! > Will Formula 409 work with floppy media? Where > can it be purchased? Oh, it's a common household cleaner here in the U.S... a comparable cleaner is Fantastik. -dq

22 years, 9 months

Rush! ( was: RE: Once in a Lifetime, Twice in Forever)

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> ---------- > From: Dave McGuire > > On February 25, David Woyciesjes wrote: > > 'Rush' is for up-tempo rock, Great programming music. > > "Power Windows" is a good album to start with. > > Their lyrics are written by the drummer, if that's any > > indication. > > Ahh yes, Rush is my all-time favorite band. Wonderful stuff! > > -Dave > > -- > Ah-ha! So Dave does have interest in things other than wondering if the girl is cute! --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 90581 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 9 months

Rush! ( was: RE: Once in a Lifetime, Twice in Forever)

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> ---------- > From: Cameron Kaiser > > > Hmmm... Being quite the Rush fan (waiting for them to finish the > > albumn, and come around on tour!), I have to politely disagree with the > > Power Windows recommendation. My suggestion is to buy the Chronicles 2 > CD > > set. It's probably on tape too, maybe even vinyl! You should be able to > find > > it used. It covers Rush's first 20 years, and the style changes they've > went > > through. > > I actually prefer the Retrospective '74-'80 compilation CD. I think this > covers all the classics in a smaller package. > Retrospective? Hmm, sounds kinda familiar. I'll have to go down to Cutler's and find it... > Myself the album I particularly enjoyed was Signals, but even more so than > that was what I think was the peak of their art ... Moving Pictures. > Signals, yes that is some good music. Moving Pictures? Yes that was definitely a high point. Then sadly it started to slide a little after that, then picked back up around Counterparts... Has anyone else heard the Working Man CD, a tribute to Rush? Some pretty good versions of classic Rush tunes... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 90581 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 9 months

MicroVAX 4000/VLC

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Megan > > > > I've sort of been wondering, since we're on AXP anyway, is anybody at > > all still running Tru64 or NT on Alpha? > > Everyone I know who owns AXP runs either *BSD or Linux or OpenVMS, > > including me. NetBSD flat screams on the LX164. > > I have a PWS500a with 3x4Gb disks ... two are dedicated to Linux and > one is Tru64... I can boot whichever I want whenever. > > My other alpha is an AXPpci33 166Mhz CPU overclocked to 200Mhz, rock > solid and running Linux (working on getting RHL7.2 on it to do some > testing) > > +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ > I have a 233 MHz CPU from a dead Multia in my AXPpci33 (WinNT4-SP6a) box. 8-) Just gotta find a way to get Win2K running on it... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 90581 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 9 months

MicroVAX 4000/VLC

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Doc > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > > > Did the guy doing the OpenVMS port to the AXPpci133 ever get it working > > enough to use? > > I've sort of been wondering, since we're on AXP anyway, is anybody at > all still running Tru64 or NT on Alpha? > Everyone I know who owns AXP runs either *BSD or Linux or OpenVMS, > including me. NetBSD flat screams on the LX164. > > Doc > Well, here at Yale University Press, we still have NT4 on an Alpha Server. Runs pretty good, but since it's the PDC, Boss won't let me bump it up to Win2K/Alpha-2128... Bummer... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 90581 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 9 months

Magnetic media and mold cleanup

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 08:46 AM 2/26/02 -0500, you wrote: >> > For floppies, I just break 'em open any way I can, >> > and then use bare, clean hands with dish detergent. >> > Let dry on a lint-free rag and you're through. >> >> Jerome Fine replies: >> >> I am trying to recover some files from an DEC RX02 (8" SSDD) >> floppy. After you clean the media, how do you put it back into >> the drive? If you just want to be able to read it long enough to recover it's data then don't put it back in a jacket! Just put the bare disk into the drive and copy it. I know several people that have successfully done this with 5 1/4" disk. However if your dirve has a spring loaded ejector, you may need to open up the housing and push the ejector back by hand. > >> Will Formula 409 work with floppy media? Where >> can it be purchased? Umm. you're not in the US are you? If you were you'd know what that stuff is. Anyway it's just a spray-on general purpose cleaner that you can buy in the grocery stores. Joe

22 years, 9 months

MicroVAX 4000/VLC

by torquil＠rockbridge.net

Hi guys, Sridhar showed me some VAXen today and i was hooked. I've gotta have one :). I was wondering if any of you have a MicroVAX 4000/VLC? Thanks, torquil

22 years, 9 months

Tru64 (was: Re: MicroVAX 4000/VLC)

by Adrian.Graham＠corporatemicrosystems.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jochen Kunz [mailto:jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de] > Sent: 25 February 2002 23:35 > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Tru64 (was: Re: MicroVAX 4000/VLC) > > > I've sort of been wondering, since we're on AXP anyway, is anybody > > at all still running Tru64 or NT on Alpha? > I am runing Tru64 5.1 on a PWS 500au. > > > Everyone I know who owns AXP runs either *BSD or Linux or OpenVMS, > > including me. NetBSD flat screams on the LX164. Our whole company is based on Tru64 and OpenVMS.......Tru64 whips the llama's ass for features and stability; it's filesystem capabilities are second to none and it's the only u**x that utilises *true* clustering in the same manner as VMSclusters. Plus, this week Compaq released record breaking benchmarks with a 4-way ES45, Tru64 5.1A and Oracle 9i which is good for us since that's what we do :) -- Adrian Graham, Corporate Microsystems Ltd e: adrian.graham(a)corporatemicrosystems.com w: www.corporatemicrosystems.com w2: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk (Online Computer Museum)

22 years, 9 months

Archiving Apple II disks

by paul＠wccnet.org

The Macintosh can archive Apple II 3.5" disk with Disk Copy, but I prefer to use an Apple II native archiving format for all my Apple II disks. I use ShrinkIt v3.4 to create both 5.25" and 3.5" Apple II compressed disk images, and transfer the files over a serial link to a PC. There they can be recorded onto an ISO 9660 CD-ROM. The files can be transferred back to an Apple II and converted to a real disk again. I have transferred over 25MB of Apple II disk images this way. On the PC the ShrinkIt files can be manipulated with Nulib and Mapper to create .DSK images to use with emulators. Paul R. Santa-Maria Monroe, Michigan USA

22 years, 10 months

STAPLES STORES WILL TAKE OLD COMPUTERS

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>And the other >day I heard an anecdote from someone who works in a retail >clothing shop at a nearby mall - that franchise doesn't even >bother prosecuting shoplifting unless it's more than $1,000. When I worked in Disney World, we were specically told to ignore shoplifters from mechandise carts... the stuff wasn't valuable enough to warrant the hassles involved in stopping a thief. That is pretty sad when you consider that many of those carts carried items that sold for $50 and up (one near my attraction sold $100 pairs of sunglasses... I always wondered what kind of a markup Disney was making on them to not care about someone stealing them) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 10 months

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test-drb February 2002